Meshiqwe Tlestanokovy

Meshiqwe Tlestanokovy (1766-late June 1798) was a Mameluke slave-soldier under the Ottoman Empire. Born in Shaumian (now in Krasnodar Krai, Russia) to a family of Circassians, Tlestanokovy became a leader of a regiment of Mameluke militia in Cairo during the French Revolutionary Wars, and he was killed at the Fall of Cairo in 1798.